BSc (Hons) Geography with Environmental Studies (Full Time)
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Description
This degree covers the impact of humans on the natural environment and the resulting changes.
Changes range from local to global in their extent and include problems such as climate change, sea level rise and loss of biodiversity, as well as more localised problems such as waste management, security of water supplies and resource mitigation. You will also study both the geographical patterns of environmental change and the processes that underpin them.
The course offers you the opportunity to study methods of analysis, such as Geographical Information Systems, which are critical to answering geographical questions.
|Industrial focus
The degree emphasises both academic merit and the prac…
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This degree covers the impact of humans on the natural environment and the resulting changes.
Changes range from local to global in their extent and include problems such as climate change, sea level rise and loss of biodiversity, as well as more localised problems such as waste management, security of water supplies and resource mitigation. You will also study both the geographical patterns of environmental change and the processes that underpin them.
The course offers you the opportunity to study methods of analysis, such as Geographical Information Systems, which are critical to answering geographical questions.
|Industrial focus
The degree emphasises both academic merit and the practical skills and qualities sought by employers. You will participate in a group project related to your potential career and may also undertake optional environmental work-based learning experience.
Course content
(Under review for 2013)Year 1
Six core units:
- Introduction to GIS
- Introduction to Field Studies
- Elements of Human Geography
- Tools of Environmental Analysis
- Physical Environment
- Principles of Environmental Management.
Year 2
Five core units and one option unit:
- Applied GIS
- Field Trip
- Applied Environmental Management
- Principles of Ecology
- Earth Systems.
Options:
- The Lifestyle Project
- Curriculum Plus.
Year 3
Four core units and one option unit:
- Group Project (double unit)
- Ocean and Coastal Management
- Environmental Monitoring and Surveying
- Global Environmental Change.
Options:
- Environmental Work-based Learning
- Dissertation.
Why choose Solent?
- Specialist facilities including an environmental laboratory housing environmental monitoring equipment and systems laboratory with computer systems for data management and interpretation
- Residential field trips in the UK and Europe with accommodation (excluding food) and transport funded by the University
- Easy access to Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), providing opportunities to obtain practical experience in a wide range of field techniques.
Assessment
Reflective portfolios, log-books, essays, reports, case studies, seminar presentations and end-of-year examinations. The final year includes a dissertation or environmental work-based learning.
Projects/work experience
You will gain experience in field techniques on two compulsory residential field trips: a five-day field trip in the UK in Year 1 and an intensive seven-day field trip in Europe in Year 2. Previous locations have included Turkey, Malta and the Azores Archipelago.
Key career skills
IT, problem solving, working to deadlines, teamwork and presentation.
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